Registering-bank.



G. R. WEST & T. H. STOUGH.

REGISTERING BANK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 12. I913.

Patented Dec. 26, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE 3.. WEST, OF PITTSBURGH, AND TUBNEY H. STOUGH, OF JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA.

REGISTERING-BAN K.

Application filed April 12, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE R. Wns'r and TURNEY H. STOUGH, citizens of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh and Jeannette, respectively, in the counties of Allegheny and Westmoreland, respectively, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering- Banks, of which the following is a specification.

The prime object of our invention is to provide a new and improved registering savin s bank.

A urther object of the present invention is to provide in connection with a coin discharging slot automatically operable means for controlling said slot, and operable to permit a discharge of the contents of the bank after a predetermined amount has been accumulated. v In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates an application of our invention: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a registering savings bank constructed in accordance with our invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view, the section being taken on line IIII of Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 3 is a'bottom plan view of the operating mechanism; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of two registering disks or wheels employed; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a combined coin receiving and disk actuating member; Fig. 6 is a detailed sectional view taken on line VIVI of Fig. 3; Fig. 7 is a detailed view partly in section, the section being taken on line VII-VII of Fig. 3; and Fig. 8 is a detailed sectional View particularly showing the manner of uniting the parts constituting the casing.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a casing preferably of the form shown constructed of thin sheet metal, with the side members 2 provided with flanges 3 bent to form receiving grooves into which the edges of the body are entered, as particularly shown by Fig. 8. The front member or face 4 of the casing is formed with a coin admission slot 5, a coin discharge slot 6, a curved slot 7, sight openings 8, and with an inwardly projecting yielding lug 9.

All of the operat ng mechanism is secured Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1916.

Serial No. 760,669.

to the inner face of member 4, and as illustrated and as preferred, includes two rotary registering disks or wheels 10 and 11 respectively provided with indicating numerals, as particularly shown by Fig. 4. The indicating numerals on the registering disk or wheel 10 designate units, and the" numerals on the disk or wheel 11, multiples thereof.

Each of the wheels 10 and 11 is rotatably secured to the member 4 by rivets 12 and 13 respectively. The registering wheel or disk 10 is provided with a series of teeth 14 projecting outwardly in a plane parallel with the faces of the disk, and in addition to the teeth 14, disk 10 is provided with a tooth 15, the latter being adapted to successively engage the teeth 16 of the disk or wheel 11. Teeth 16, it will be noted, are projected outwardly and substantially at right angles with the plane of the faces of wheel 11. Wheel 10 is also provided with an outwardly projecting lug 17, the function of which will be hereinafter described.

It will be understood that the relative arrangement of the teeth on the respective disks 10 and 11 is such that upon a complete revolution of wheel 10, the outwardly projected tooth 15 of said wheel will engage one of the teeth of wheel 11, and move said wheel sufficiently to bring an indicating numeral into proper register with a sight opening of the casing. The rotary movement of the said registering wheels is effected by means of a combined coin receiver and wheel actuating member 18, preferably of the form particularly shown by Fig. 5. This member is secured to the face 4 by the same pivot employed for securing the wheel 10 thereto, and is moved by means of a button or thumb piece 19 extended through the curved slot 7 Member 18 is preferably formed of spring metal, and is provided with a slightly bent yielding tooth engaging member 20 adapted, when the said member 18 is moved forward, to engage a tooth on wheel or disk 10 and carry said wheel forward to bring an indicating numeral into register with a sight opening 8. The yielding lug 9 on the face 4 engaging with a tooth on Wheel 10 prevents the wheel from turning in the opposite direction during the return movement of the member 18.

21 designates a member or a pivoted slide controlling the discharge opening 6, said member being adapted to be automatically operated at predetermined intervals, for example, when the registering mechanism has registered one hundred, member 21 is moved away from the openin 6, thereby permitting the contents to be removed from the bank.

As illustrated, member 21 is pivotally secured to the casing'by a pin or rivet 22, and includes an upwardly projecting curved arm 23 provided at one end with a finger 25%; said finger 2a is disposed in the path of travel of an upwardly projecting tooth 25 carried on the toothed wheel 11. As illustrated, tooth or member 25 is of greater height than the teeth 16., and, while said teeth 16 pass under curved arm 23 without making contact there with, tooth 25, being of greater height, will engage finger 24- thereof and move the member 21 to uncover the slot 6. After the contents have been discharged from the bank, member 21 is moved into closed position by means of the lug 17 carried on wheel 10.

In some instances and particularly where it is desired to prevent the operation of the registering mechanism except when a coin is inserted through the coin admission slot, we provide means for preventing the movement of the member 18, and these means, as shown, include. a stop 26. arranged adjacent with the coin admission slot 5 and normally projected into the path of travel of member 18, said stop 26 being adapted to engage the member 18 and prevent said member bemoved except when it is slightly depressed relatively to said stop. By inserting a coin in the slot 5 and pressing the coin against the pivoted spring-metal member 18. said member will be depressed or sprung sufficiently to allow it to be moved under the stop 26.

In operating the registering mechanism, distinct clinking sounds are produced, one during the forward movement of the member 18 due to a tooth 1 1 springing over the lug 9. and one upon the return movement caused by the travel of the tooth engaging part 20 of member 18 under one of the teeth 14. thereby flexing said tooth slightly.

That we claim is:-

1. In a registering bank. the combination with a casing having a coin admission slot and an inwardly projecting tongue at one end of said slot. a pivoted member positionable opposite the slot to receive the coin through the slot.. said member having a configuration whereby said tongue will act to limit the pivotal movement of the member in one direction when the member is in coin receiving position, said member and the coin slot coacting with the coin to move the member beyond the tongue and permit the complete movement of the member, and registel-ing mechanism operated by said member when given its complete movement.

2. In a registering bank, the combination of a casing having a coin admission slot and a coin removal slot, indicating mechanism carried by the casing; said mechanism in cluding a pair of indicating wheels operatively connected to provide a decimal relation, one of said wheels bearing the units indications, means for operating the inclicating wheels, and a pivoted member adapted to be actuated independently by both wheels for controlling the coin. removal slot, said member being moved to open the slot when said wheels have been actuated to indicate the maximum amount.

3, In a registering bank, the combination of a casing having a coin admission slot and a coin removal slot, indicating mechanism carried by the casing. said mechanism including a pair of indicating ,wheels operatively connected to provide a decimal relation, one or said wheels bearing the units indications, means for operating said indicating wheels, and a pivoted member controlling the coin removal slot, said wheels carrying means for moving said member to successively open and close the coin removal slot.

4C. In a registering bank, the combination of a casing having a coin admission slot and coin removal slot. indicating mechanism carried by the casing. said mechanism including a pair of indicating wheels operatively connected to provide a decimal rela tion, one of said wheels bearing the units indications, means for operating said indicating wheels, and a pivoted member controlling the coin removal slot. said wheels carrying means for moving said member to successively open and close the coin removal slot, said means including a tooth carried by the tens wheel adapted to move the member to open said slot, said tooth being positioned to provide this movement during the move ment of both wheels to reset the indicating mechanism at zero.

5. In a registering bank, the combinatime of a casing having a coin admission slot and a coin removal slot. indicating mechanism carried by the casing; said mechanism including a pair of indicating wheels operatively connected to provide a decimal relation, one of said wheels bearing the units indications. means for operating said indicat ing wheels. and a pivoted member controlling the coin removal slot, said wheels carrying means for moving said member to suecessively open and close the coin removal slot, said means including a tooth carried by the; tens wheel adapted to move the member to open said slot, said tooth being In testimony whereof we-afiix our signapositioned to provide this movement during tures in presence of two witnesses.

the movement of both wheels to reset the in- GEORGE R. WEST.

dicating mechanism at zero, the units wheel TURNEY H. STOUGH. having a tongue adapted to return said Witnesses:

member to slot closing position during the S. A. MCFARLAND,

succeeding rotation of the wheel. W. G. Doom'rrmz.

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Washington, D. 0. 

